NOAA Fisheries - Panama City Laboratory, Chief Scientist (Andy David)
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2006 Multibeam Mapping of cross-shelf corridor, North of Madison-Swanson - Florida
One
Map
Panama City, FL
NOAA Fisheries Laboratory in Panama City, FL
http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/labs/panama/
NOAA Fisheries
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Cross-shelf multibeam survey of West Florida shelf
Panama City, FL
NOAA Fisheries - Panama City Laboratory
http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/labs/panama/
This disk or set of disks contain high-resolution multibeam and backscatter maps
of an area North of Madison-Swanson (29.1667N, 85.6667W), in the West-Florida shelf,
not included in a previous mapping expedition to the area. It includes the following products:
1) ESRI .ASC files, 2) Text file containing X, Y, Z postprocessed bathymetry data, 3) Geotiff
and JPEG images from of bathymetry, 4) GeoTiff and JPEG images of backscatter,
and 5) Fledermaus files of the survey locations. All products are available contacting the distributor.
Some data sets are also posted on NOAA's Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) at
www.coris.noaa.gov. Another product that will not be distributed, but will be used as input to
habitat classification software (QTC MultiView), are raw data files logged to disk using
the Simrad EM3000 multibeam system data acquisition software. These raw files contain packets
of information (depth soundings, navigation, attitude, sound velocity profiles, UTC time) that the acquisition
software logged sequentially in time. The raw data format is available from Kongsberg-Simrad. The multibeam
system was provided by University of South Florida, College of Marine Science and the support vessel was
the Florida Institute of Oceanography R/V Suncoaster.
The primary objective of this mapping expedition is to find the location of deep water
reefs along the West Florida shelf, which represent important habitat for reef fish. The Gulf of
Mexico Fisheries Management Council recognize the importance of this geological setting when
they established the Madison-Swanson and Steamboat Lumps Marine Protected Areas (MPA)
in 1999. Precisely georeferenced high-resolution mapping of bathymetry is a fundamental
first step to study the area of the continetal shelf and the shelf-edge suspected to be critical habitats.
The survey was supported by University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, in St. Petersburg, FL,
(www.marine.usf.edu) using a Simrad EM 3000 multi-beam system. The survey was funded by NOAA Fisheries
(www.sefsc.noaa.gov).
Note on Bounding Box: Survey area was irregular in shape, the entire area within the corners was not mapped
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groun condition
In Work
As needed
-85.9707
-85.6903
29.5017
29.3308
CoRIS Theme Thesaurus
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Bathymetry
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography > Backscatter
CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus
Geographic Information > Bathymetry
ISO 19115 Topic Category
elevation
006
none
multibeam
bathymetry
backscatter
deep-water reefs
ocean floor topography
EM3000
Fish habitats
CoRIS Place Thesaurus
OCEAN BASIN > Atlantic Ocean > Gulf of Mexico > West Florida Shelf > Madison-Swanson Reserve (29N085W0001)
COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Florida > Madison-Swanson Reserve (29N085W0001)
CoRIS Region
Florida
None
Not for legal use
NOAA Fisheries - Panama City Laboratory
Andrew W. David
Research Fishery Biologist
mailing and physical address
3500 Delwood Beach Rd
Panama City
Florida
32408
USA
850-234-6541
850-235-3559
Andy.David@noaa.gov
Mon-Fri, 8 am - 4 pm CDT
Colored, shaded geotifs for the survey area were created by University of Sourth Florida, College of Marine Science using
Caris HIPS and SIPS post-processing software. The raw survey data and processed XYZ data may also be available
upon request from the P.O.C.
None
Data are believed to be logically consistent, though no tests were performed.
Unknown
0.5 - 2 meters
0.5 - 2 meters
The bathymetry data were collected along a continuous swath
perpendicular to the direction of the ship using a Kongsberg Simrad EM3000 (300 kHz)
multibeam sonar system. The data are cleaned of bad navigation and depth soundings.
The depth soundings are gridded into a common grid. The gridded data are converted
to an XYZ ASCII format file (Longitude, Latitude, Depth in Meters).
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Brian Donahue
University of South Florida, College of Marine Science
Marine Technician / Research Assistant
mailing and physical address
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
Florida
33701-5016
USA
(727) 553 1121
(727) 553 1189
briand@marine.usf.edu
Point
Point
0.00002
0.00002
Decimal Degrees
WGS84
WGS84
6378137.0
298.25722356300
Sample of bathymetry XYZ ASCII file
29.303755 -85.815997 63.489000
29.303755 -85.815966 63.869000
29.303754 -85.815935 63.845000
29.303754 -85.815904 63.786000
29.303754 -85.815873 63.691000
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NOAA Fisheries - Panama City laboratory
Marta M. Ribera
Research Fishery Biologist
mailing and physical address
3500 Delwood Beach Rd
Panama City
Florida
32408
USA
850-234-6541
850-235-3559
marta.ribera@noaa.gov
Mon-Fri, 8 am - 4 pm CDT
Offline Data
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in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function
on a particular system.
Although these data have been used by NOAA, these data and information
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content, usefulness, functioning, completeness, or accuracy.
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DVD
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Contact Marta Ribera at marta.ribera@noaa.gov or 850-234-6541
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NOAA Fisheries - Panama City laboratory
Marta M. Ribera
Research Fishery Biologist
Mailing and physical address
3500 Delwood Beach Rd
Panama City
Florida
32408
USA
850-234-6541
850-235-3559
Marta.Ribera@noaa.gov
Mon-Fri, 8 am - 4 pm CDT
FGDC CSDGM
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